The Super Bowl Halftime Show is just as big as the game itself. This year’s halftime will feature Kendrick Lamar and special guest SZA performing.
Every fan wants to know where they can see this year’s Super Bowl halftime and what time they can expect to see the Grammy Award winner and his special guest take the stage.
What Time Will Kendrick Lamar Perform?
The Super Bowl Halftime Show’s performance will be around 8:00 ET if there are no major hiccups. The show can be seen on Fox and streamed live on Amazon Prime.
Most halftimes are traditionally 15 minutes long, but since this is the Super Bowl Halftime Show, it will be 30 minutes long. Although the performance itself may not be more than 14 to 15 minutes long, the set-up is why it will take 30 minutes.
“There are so many aspects of it, the dancers, the lighting elements, the special effects,” Dan Parise, a Roc Nation producer, told Reuters in 2020 via USA Today. “It’s like a big jigsaw puzzle.”
Back in 2012, head coach Bill Belichick stopped practice and made his players go back to the locker room for 30 minutes to prepare for halftime at the Super Bowl, adding in a pep talk to complete the training.
“It really gets into a whole restarting mentality,” Belichick said. “It’s not like taking a break and coming out in the second half. It’s like starting the game all over again. It’s like playing a game, stopping, and then playing a second game.”
The longest halftime performances were by Justin Timberlake, who went on for 14 minutes during his Super Bowl performance in 2018; Lady Gaga lasted 13.5 minutes, and Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s show was a bit longer than 13 minutes.
Just 12 years ago, in this very game and this very stadium, the stadium lights went out for 34 minutes; many, of course, are hoping that there won’t be a repeat performance tonight of that incident.
The anticipation of the five-time Grammy winner is building as fans wonder what songs will he perform. Obviously, he will be performing his Grammy-winning hit, “Not Like Us,” in front of this packed house at the Super Bowl, which had a crowd at the Grammys that not only had fans rocking and rolling but singling along as well.
Five-time Grammy winner SZA is no slouch herself when it comes to hits, and she is surely going to bring the house down with her performance as well.